Dd1 is busily designing her leavers shirt for next week at school & trying to think of a Taylor Swift reference to bejewel it with

[lucysmam]

This involves lots of talking at me, lots of googling lyrics & trying to name her "Era", working out how to make herself a stencil using the laminator, informing me that she needs glue & rhinestones...I'm exhausted already & she hasn't even asked me to help with sticking sparkly things or placement of things yet 🙄🤣

(Her friend gas already used the reference "The Era" and their years at the school, so she doesn't want to do that as well 🤷‍♀️)

I'd be going with 'Out of the Woods'.

I'm not quite sure whether she wants 'an Era' name or just lyrics which represent her time at school. If lyrics, she could pretty much take her pick from Long Live.

I had six girls here over half term doing theirs so I can pass on the valuable knowledge that a thin paintbrush and PVA left on a plate for about twenty minutes is the way to go for glitter.

Dd and her friends drew lightly on the shirt with pencil first to get an outline. Stencils were trialed unsuccessfully.

Perhaps the years above and then underneath:
‘I’ve got a blank space baby… so write your name’

If she hasn't already got the rhinestones, hot fix are ironed on which is loads easier. You can get a stick sheet to allow you to design on a stencil then just lift them up and iron in the right place! If not, she wants plenty of cocktail sticks for them

I'm dancin' on my own, I make the moves up as I go.....
And that's what they don't know

Love it, she actually has so many clever lyrics. I hated her and Miley then accidentally listened to a couple of tracks and realized, OMG these are beach boys genius level.

Could use Fifteen - would be apt

’and you might just find who you’re supposed to be’

Also from fifteen - ‘this is life before you know who you’re gonna be’ (or maybe that one isn’t so cool!

I've got a Blank Space baby....write your name ?

Kids do still sign shirts yes or am I old ?

Cornelia Street - ‘I’d never walk Cornelia Street again’

August - ‘lost in the memory’

? My kids are only in early 20's and they wrote on shirts on the last day in felt tip no more (well dd1 didn't bother because she felt it was a waste of a shirt, her mother's daughter!)

It was the end of a decade/but the start of an age
I had the time of my life with you
Hold on to the memories

If she enjoyed it.
(And if she didn't, 'Long story short I survived' haha)

Ron sexsmiths Galbraith street, beautiful similar song:

"Hey. Hi. I'm the problem it's me."

Just joking although it depends how she behaved at school though LOL.

Love this whole idea though and the suggestions are fab!

Surely it has to be a line from Long Live or Change.

Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you from Reputation era

I was enchanted to meet you from Enchanted

In this moment now, capture it remember it, from Fearless

Black book

Pretty much any line of long live

This

Oh oops I didn't see I'd been beaten to it

Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you

It was the end of a decade but the start of an age

Long story short I survived

It was miserable and magical

Never be so clever you forget to be kind

You lot are brilliant, thank you 😊 I'll show her when she comes down from sticking her lashes or whatever else she does getting ready for school 🙄🤣

Many thanks to you all for getting the creative process going..she's gone for short and sweet (pic attached minus name - although I'm sure you could guess it 🤣).

@Orders76 thank you for the song link - I will have a listen when it's quiet in the morning. I've been out all day & dd has come in blasting T.S.

Her name, the years, and "Next Chapter..." will be in the Speak Now font. "The End" and the ink bottle label in plain block/bold lettering, the ink bottle full of multicoloured ink rhinestones.

We've found rhinestones I already had in a colour relevant to each album, so just need to find the glue I think I have upstairs (which she is going to look for now) and I've said she can nip into town to have a look see if there are any better colours in Boyes before we stick them 😊

Love! Story of Us always is such a toe tapper.

Bless her! That’ll be great